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Gage Statue in
Lincoln, Illinois

Kansas native Robert M. Gage sculpted this seated Lincoln
for Lincoln College, a school named for the president in 1865. The
heroic-sized bronze work on a granite base stands outside the Lincoln Heritage
Museum. Appropriately, the school is located in the first town
named for Lincoln.

Gage's "Lincoln, the Student" was dedicated in 1961 and bears an
inscription attributed to Lincoln, "I shall prepare myself. Someday my chance
will come." Lincoln, who was largely self-educated, taught himself law and
surveying and carried books with him much of his life.